I'd have thought that XE fields would be more satisfactory for an
alphabetized list. But see also
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/glossary/glossary.html

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"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message
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Hi ?B?U29Xcml0ZQ==?=,

The report is 80 pages and contains
many acronyms. To aid the reader, at the front of the document I define
all
the acronyms used, as a sort of dictionary. In Word Perfect, this used
to be
easy, using the list function. It worked just like a TOC generation,
but
simpler. I would just highlight the word, mark for the list, select a
page
for the list and click on generate. I can't find such a function in
Word, so
I'm doing it manually -- yikes! Do you know of a comparable function?

I'd say try using a TC field for this.

Select some text, then press Alt+Shift+o. This will open a little dialog
box
that lets you mark entries, you can leave it open, if you want, and select
further entries to mark.

Look up the TC and the TOC fields in Word's help to get a feel for what
you're
working with. The "Table identifier" will let you generate a TOC just for
these
entries. You can suppress the page numbers so that you essentially just
get a
list.

If you want it sorted, and in columns, then you'll need to turn the list
into
plain text (select the TOC, then Ctrl+Shift+F9) then sort and format it
into
columns.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
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